Tips on photography | Starting out

This is a hard one to write as we all start in different areas and places within photography. The way I started, I was on holiday in Australia taking some photos of people surfing and someone said they were good shots so I just started there. I then went to Uni to study photography and that is where I started to learn how to actual take some great photos and then loved doing model and product photography. I mainly love the way light falls on to the subject that you are shooting.

There are many types of photography that you can lead to places. As photography is a big area to cover I mainly will be looking at model and stills with a bit of landscape in there as well. The best places to look if you are starting out would be a model and photographer sites where you can connect to each over. This is how I started working with some amazing people. I am personal always looking at boosting my portfolio as I know I can do better. The areas that you might need to look into if you like to start out are: –

Fashion

Portraits

Stills

Weddings

Landscape

Within these subjects you have more areas that you can work in. It took me a while to find where I found my style. I do admit that I love to have a conceptual style to all my work as I like to be a bit odd and love to have a relaxed style in the way I shoot. All I can say on top of this is just find your own style and what you love shooting.

Also, read a lot of websites and videos. As I am not going into fully details on how a camera works. The way I think about it is the same as your eyes

The Lens is there to sort out the amount of light going into your sense or film. As well as the depth of field.

The ISO is how sensitive of your retina, this is also known as the speed of the film.

The shutter speed is how much light is being sent to the sense as a mechanism is moving up and down.

This is so there is a small or big window where the sense can see what is being shot.